Questions tagged [help-center]
The help center is the special area of the site that contains the most basic information about the scope and mechanics of the site
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Can we revisit our policy on answers that are not serious contenders?
Currently we have a policy that all answers must be serious contenders, or they are subject to deletion. This can be found in help/on-topic: Be a serious contender for the winning criteria in use. ...
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Tour page summary - we're not a Q&A site
Here's what our Tour page says right now: Code Golf Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for programming puzzle enthusiasts and code golfers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack ...
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Lack of obviousness about how to use this site [duplicate]
The problem is hardly unique to this SE site, but for people new to the site there is fundamental knowledge that isn't obvious. For instance, the "tour" page doesn't mention that questions must be ...
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Clarifying "serious contender" in the help center
The help center says: All solutions to challenges should: Correctly implement the required specification. Be a serious contender for the winning criteria in use. For example, an entry to a ...
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Meta privileges help page inconsistency
There appears to be an inconsistency on our Meta privileges page in the Help Center! The unflappable dev Chris Jester-Young and our benevolent overlords in the SE Community Team have lowered PPCG's ...
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Let's rewrite the help center's on-topic page
Related: A Better Help Center Our current help center is lacking in a number of ways (see the linked post for more details). Therefore, this is a Community Wiki post meant for collaboratively editing ...
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Relax the requirements for "crazy formatting" on the /tour example question
On Programming Puzzles and Code Golf, the answers to most of our questions look like this: Some language, 1234 characters asdfunicorn+1(&&%^#$)/-9x9[{}] ...
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Make "About" page more site specific [duplicate]
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/about doesn't describe what the site is about. It should have a link and a short quote from https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/faq Code golf is a special type of ...
